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Iyengar Yoga

'A sign of excellence, clarity and depth of understanding.

Precise method of physical, mental and spiritual alignment.'

 Alison in Utthita Marichyasana

Y O G A - ALISON TREWHELA www.yogatrewhela.co.uk

Alison Trewhela.........

  • has been practising yoga since 1979
  • has taught yoga since 1983
  • is dedicated to the Iyengar method of teaching yoga
  • is a teacher member of The Iyengar Yoga Association (UK), IYAUK, and a committee member of SWIYI
  • holds Intermediate Junior III certificate (IYAUK 1997)
  • has specialised in developing appropriate yoga short courses for beginners with low back pain
  • has led research into yoga's efficacy as a treatment for low back pain with York Trials Unit at The University of York, funded by Arthritis Research UK
  • is on a research team currently submitting more grant bid applications into further yoga research
  • leads annual Special Study Units for Medical Students, where they learn about the experience and application of yoga
  • teaches therapeutic and educative yoga to small groups on request for conditions such as women’s and musculo-skeletal problems
  • offers private yoga consultations and tuition (mostly in Walsingham Clinic in Truro)
  • cannot conceive of her life without yoga!

 

Y O G A - ALISON TREWHELA www.yogatrewhela.co.uk

Alison will be living both in TRURO, Cornwall, UK and also FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND from October 2009 for a year or two. She will develop her yoga understanding and practice further during this 'yoga sabbatical' and will return regularly to the UK to teach workshops and offer individual yoga consultations and tuition. (All her Cornish classes will be covered by experienced Iyengar Yoga teachers throughout this period. See Class Timetable Page. Thanks to those teachers.)

Thank you to all Alison's students – past, present and future – without whom she could not be a yoga teacher and would not have learnt so much. Keep up your yoga forever!

YOGA RESEARCH RESULTS OUT NOW www.yogaforbacks.co.uk

 

 

Perran Trewhela exhibition poster

The artwork used on this website has been painted by Perran Trewhela. Email him on This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or check out HIS NEW ARTWORK WEBSITE on www.perrantrewhela.com.

Thanks to Perran.

 

STOP PRESS
  • YOGA RESEARCH RESULTS OUT NOW - visit www.yogaforbacks.co.uk. Find out about the largest yoga research trial and one of the largest trials into chronic low back pain ever funded by Arthritis Research UK. Alison was on the trial design and management team based at The University of York; she designed the 'Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs' programme used for the trial; wrote the Teachers' and Students' manuals (now books); recorded the relaxations CD (available for purchase); trained the trial's 20 British Wheel of Yoga and Iyengar Yoga teachers; edited and wrote parts of the research papers (3 published); wrote the educational website www.yogaforbacks.co.uk and more.
  • View a yoga video filmed at Penryn about the yoga trial - go to www.yogaforbacks.co.uk and click on the link on the Home Page. (Directed and narrated and class taught by Alison.)
  • FRIBOURG CLASSES IN SWITZERLAND - Alison is now teaching one evening class and one day class in Fribourg (Dates - Calendar of Workshops Page. Please contact her via this website - Links page)
  • TEACHERS interested in knowing more about the Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs yoga programme, please contact Alison via this website or on This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .